Mobile and Wi-Fi Geo location using Google Latitude

The development of Geographical location standards has opened the doors for new strategies and ideas for location based services, specifically for wireless mobile devices. With the help of Geo location, it has become easy to get information of specific location or find the current locations on our mobile devices. Using networks like Wi-Fi, Cellular networks or GPS positions, it has become a function of second nature for letting our wireless mobile devices know our locations. However, if a wireless mobile device does not support GPS service, we cannot access Wi-Fi data. Therefore, in this paper we present an application as a proof of concept (POC), with the help of Google Latitude to define the location of a specific Wi-Fi tower that in turn enables us to locate the approximate location of the wireless mobile devices without GPS support.